Boden Law

The firm: Boden Law is a top tier, full-service law firm based in Istanbul which represents and provides legal advice to clients in various sectors with a particular focus on energy, technology, natural resources, real estate and infrastructure. With the understanding of complex dependencies between and within these sectors, the firm offers a unique service. Boden Law differentiates itself with its industry specific expertise and its solution-oriented approach which has made it the go-to law firm for niche and complex legal issues. Boden Law has established itself as a future-oriented firm in the legal market thanks to its impressive capacity to identify the future’s issues today and to tackle these issues head-on. The firm is dedicated into providing high-quality legal services with the strength it gets from the comprehensive know-how accumulated in over a decade.

Boden Law provides advice and representation particularly with respect to cross-border transactions (relating to Turkish and non-Turkish targets), project development and finance transactions, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, privatizations, concessions, public service contracts, alliances, and dispute resolution with special emphasis on arbitration.

Given the complexity of energy matters and the amounts at stake, energy companies and financial institutions seek a legal team that has a proven track record. Boden Law has a team of specialist lawyers with a high degree of expertise in Turkish energy law including energy markets’ regulations. Our team is pre-eminent in successfully representing energy companies/financial institutions in their electricity and gas related projects including but not limited to project finance, EPC and O&M contracts, M&A and energy trade transactions including tolling agreements, derivative transactions and physical energy trade transactions as well as energy disputes (both arbitration and litigation).

The firm is highly regarded with respect to energy sale contracts and has unparalleled experience in commodity trade and EFET agreements (advised EFET in adapting its master electricity and gas trade agreements into Turkish law). The firm is also highly regarded for its expertise in solar and wind power plant projects.

Boden Law delivers various trainings and workshops with regard to specific energy related issues in the market. In energy projects, you need a team that really understands the international and local energy industry. Boden Law trains our lawyers to ensure that we are fully knowledgeable of local and international markets and trends in all the relevant energy markets. Every year, our lawyers are trained 3 months at EFET, Brussels to better understand European energy markets. We are proud to have the most experienced and well-recognized energy practice in Turkey.

Boden Law adheres to the development of the Turkish energy, technology and real estate market. Boden Law is also dedicated to increase the knowledge in the society. With this aim, Boden Law established Boden Academy in 2014 as a platform where diverse, inaugurating and creative legal, political and strategical topics are discussed. We are embodying within our academy highly reputable international experts and academicians (http://boden-law.com/boden-academy/).

Boden Law also has extensive experience in Turkish energy, real estate and infrastructure industries where the concession models have been mostly used. Our team has specific experience in highway, port and hospital projects and various Public Private Partnership (PPP) projects both in the transactional side and the dispute resolution side.

Senior Partner (Head of Real Estate and Infrastructure Group) İnanç Akalın has significant experience in real estate law, zoning law and highway, port and hospital projects and various PPP projects. His experience includes EPC agreements, FIDIC agreements, construction agreements, lease agreements, administrative applications, and complex real estate transactions. He took part in many port projects such as APMT container port in Aliağa, DP World Yarımca container port, sale of Kumport. His expertise includes port operation agreements. He also took an active part in negotiations with governmental authorities.

Boden Law also advises clients on their technological investments with a special emphasis on fintech, AI, data automation and biotech. The firm provides legal services to technology companies, as well as corporate clients investing in technology, contracts, merger and acquisitions projects, international growth, as well as on compliance matters with an emphasis on e-commerce, product liability, data protection and cyber-security while maintaining a commercial mindset and tech-savvy approach. Boden Law has a unique position in this area as we combine our understanding of global economic landscape and implications of technological advancements with our experience in handling complex international projects. Partner (Head of Technology Group) Sinem Mermer brings a wealth of experience and expertise in advising clients on technology matters. With a proven track record of handling complex international projects, she combines her understanding of technological advancements with her practical approach to provide clients with comprehensive and strategic legal advice.

In addition to its expertise in energy, infrastructure, real estate, technology and mining, Boden also provides day-to-day legal services to its clients including but not limited to corporate law, employment law, contracts law issues. Boden advises many international and national clients which lack in-house law departments as if their in-house counsel in daily legal problems.

Areas of practice
Banking and finance, distressed financing: Boden Law advises on complex financial transactions including project and infrastructure finance, acquisition finance, asset finance, real estate finance, bilateral and syndicated lending, Islamic finance, derivatives and structured finance and other types of lending. Boden Law represents creditors, equity investors and other related parties in corporate reorganizations, distressed situations, bankruptcy cases, and their related financing. Assignments include out-of-court restructurings as well as bankruptcy litigation. The firm also advises prospective purchasers and investors in various cross-border restructuring, insolvency, distressed asset acquisitions and investments and distressed debt transactions.

Corporate and commercial legal advisory: Boden Law provides day-to-day counseling, re-organizations and legal services on corporate and commercial law matters. Boden Law advises foreign clients in the establishment of their direct investment vehicles including selection of the entity and the establishment of their businesses. The firm also advises to deep-tech technology companies for their corporate planning of investment rounds as well as expansion plans.

Dispute resolution and arbitration: Boden Law includes a team of expert litigators specialized in key practice areas including contractual disputes, corporate litigation, administrative litigation, creditors’ rights and bankruptcies. Boden Law also represents its clients in investment and commercial arbitration, mediation and enforcement of foreign arbitration awards in Turkey. The team consists of partners with international experience in arbitration matters.

Energy advisory: Boden Law provides specific expertise in energy and natural resources (including metals and mining). As being one of its major practice areas, Boden Law represents its clients under energy mergers and acquisitions, commodity trading, energy and infrastructure projects, energy regulatory and compliance advice, renewable energy and energy dispute resolution. With its expansion to technology sector, Boden Law provides insightful legal advice to energy companies for their digital transformation and investments in new technologies including block chain, smart contracts and Internet of Things (IoT).

Mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and alliances: Boden Law has extensive experience in the full range of merger and acquisition transactions including public or private company mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs, mergers and de-mergers. The transactions range from mergers and acquisitions including asset and stock acquisitions, to joint venture or strategic partnership transactions.

Project development and finance: Boden Law specializes in project development and finance specifically in the energy, construction, chemicals, metals and mining and infrastructure sectors. Boden Law provides a full range of leading edge contentious and non-contentious regulatory, commercial and transactional advice under this area.

Real estate: Boden Law has extensive experience in real estate law and zoning law. Boden Law has significant experience in major infrastructure and superstructure projects such as highway, port and hospital projects.

Technology and innovation: Boden Law provides legal services on compliance matters, technology contracts, complex merger and acquisitions projects, international growth, data protection and cyber-security while maintaining a commercial mindset and tech-savvy approach.

Boden Academy: With the aim of creating a bridge between theoretical knowledge and its practical application, Boden Law established Boden Academy in February 2014. Boden Academy aims to provide expert advice on law and policy in the fields of various areas and to build a bridge between different sectors and law with an inter-disciplinary approach. It is a unique discussion forum and a ‘think tank’ in which contemporary and innovative legal issues affecting the global and local markets are discussed. With the valuable contributions of prominent sector practitioners and scholars, Boden Academy organizes conferences, seminars, training, workshops and publishes reports and periodicals.